Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

You are your choices.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.